>the convenience factors are so overwhelmingly against installing native apps.
Citation needed. I can think of precious few applications that are better in the browser than native.
MS Office and Libre Office are significantly better than the horrid google docs experience.
Not a single web-based text or code editor is worth a damn.
Games are better, more featureful and more performant as native than in the browser.
Web based CAD is a joke.
Almost every major application is inferior as a web app. Gmail on desktop is about the only thing that's better than the native experience, at least that I can think of.
Citation needed. I can think of precious few applications that are better in the browser than native.
MS Office and Libre Office are significantly better than the horrid google docs experience.
Not a single web-based text or code editor is worth a damn.
Games are better, more featureful and more performant as native than in the browser.
Web based CAD is a joke.
Almost every major application is inferior as a web app. Gmail on desktop is about the only thing that's better than the native experience, at least that I can think of.